10 Masterpieces you have to read before you die is the book that everyone should read to understand themselves and each other. The authors and works for this book were selected, as a result of numerous studies, analysis of the texts over the past 100 years and the demand for readers. It must be read in order to understand the world around us, its history, to recognize the heroes, to understand the winged expressions and jokes that come from these literary works. Reading these books will mean the discovery of a world of self-development and self-expression for each person. These books have been around for decades, and sometimes centuries, for the time they recreate, the values they teach, the point of view, or simply the beauty of words. This volume includes: The Odyssey by Homer Plato The Republic Poetics Aristotle The Meditations Of The Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri Hell or the Inferno Purgatory Paradise Faust by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Leo Tolstoy A Confession